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Originally Posted by Avatard
And oh, one more thing. No one comes to the defense of someone who hits a child. Even when it's not at all your fault, and he actually "hit" you.
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When I was 16, I was driving my car about mile from my house when two of the neighbor girls were on their bicycles ( on the correct side ) and a 9 year old girl on a 26" woman's bicycle was on the wrong side side of the road.
When I was about 50' in front of her ( I had slowed to 20 mph from the 35 I was doing ) , she turned directly infront of me. I locked up the brakes but she hit the front of my car, rolled up the hood and back off the front.
A neighbor heard the crash and called the ambulance. She had a broken jaw , broken arm and some cuts. Her parents came down from NYC to the local hospital she was at and were so thankful I stayed with her and made sure she got the care she needed.
Those kind parents waited until I turned 18 and then sued me for $150,000 ( a hell of a lot money in 1978 )
I lost the suit because I did NOT have full control of my motor vehicle.
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It won't matter if the cyclist in the original story was doing 15 under the speed limit, he's screwed.